Central Venous Access Devices Care and Management

This book provides a basic understanding of care and management of central venous access devices (CVADs) for student nurses, newly qualified nurses and more experienced nurses who are unfamiliar in dealing with these devices. It covers patient assessment, appropriate device selection, insertion, care and management of CVADs- including peripherally inserted central catheters, non tunnelled central venous catheters, skin tunnelled catheters and implanted ports.

Lisa Dougherty is Clinical Nurse Specialist, Intravenous Services, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Chelsea and Surrey. She is co-editor of the fifth and sixth editions of the Marsden Manualand is well respected nationally and internationally for her work on Intravenous therapy.